Federal contractor · LOUISVILLE, KY

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO.

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. received $129.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 951 awards (−35% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.3B. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($61.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$129.4M
New awards
951
Sole-source
0.4%
Single offer
44%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

9 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $128.4M in FY2026 together.

  1. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO.LOUISVILLE, KY · Family page
    $129.4M
  2. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCATLANTA, GA
    $685.7K
  3. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.CARROLLTON, TX
    $0
  4. UPS CUSTOMHOUSE BROKERAGE, INC.LOUISVILLE, KY
    $0
  5. UPS EXPEDITED MAIL SERVICES INCALPHARETTA, GA
    $0
  6. UPS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, INCATLANTA, GA
    $0
  7. UPS-DELBROS INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS LTD., INC.PARANAQUE, PHL
    $0
  8. TFORCE FREIGHT, INC.RICHMOND, VA
    -$19.1K
  9. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.WASHINGTON, DC
    -$1.6M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 50.4MFY2017
  2. 260.4MFY2018
  3. 333.5MFY2019
  4. 235.6MFY2020
  5. 267.3MFY2021
  6. 238.1MFY2022
  7. 230.4MFY2023
  8. 345MFY2024
  9. 198MFY2025
  10. 129.4MFY2026
  11. 4.1MFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$61.6M48%
    382 awards
  2. USTRANSCOM$42.5M33%
    24 awards
  3. Internal Revenue Service$15.2M12%
    3 awards
  4. Social Security Administration$3.9M3.0%
    2 awards
  5. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$1.2M0.9%
    216 awards
  6. Environmental Protection Agency$1M0.8%
    26 awards
  7. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office$1M0.8%
    1 awards
  8. Agricultural Research Service$629.9K0.5%
    3 awards
  9. Office of the Chief Financial Officer$498.1K0.4%
    7 awards
  10. Federal Emergency Management Agency$447.2K0.3%
    187 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Transportation & logistics$72.7M56%
  2. Professional services$56.6M44%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$89.7K0.1%
  4. Construction & real property$65K0.1%
  5. IT & telecom$3,0240.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Jefferson County, KY$63.8M49%
  2. Cook County, IL$18.9M15%
  3. Abroad$4.3M3.4%
  4. Bronx County, NY$3.4M2.6%
  5. Harrison County, MS$1.9M1.5%
  6. Jackson County, MO$1.7M1.3%
  7. Dakota County, MN$1.5M1.1%
  8. Multnomah County, OR$1.4M1.1%
  9. Davidson County, TN$1.3M1.0%
  10. Pinellas County, FL$1.2M0.9%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition44%
    US 39% · $57.1M
  • Sole-source awards0.4%
    US 30% · $474.2K
  • Single-offer competitions44%
    US 8.7% · $56.6M
  • Urgency justifications0.1%
    US 5.1% · $69K

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$261K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards
  2. Bureau of Engraving and Printing$135K
    Department of the Treasury · 1 awards
  3. Food and Nutrition Service$70K
    Department of Agriculture · 1 awards
  4. Department of the Army$0
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SHIPPING CHARGES$51.2M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Professional services· Oct 1, 2023 – Sep 21, 2026· 36S79724F0001
  2. SMALL PARCEL DELIVERY SERVICE (NGDS)$16.8M
    Internal Revenue Service· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2021 – Jul 15, 2026· 205AE922F00001
  3. THIS TASK ORDER (TO) PROVIDES EXPRESS SMALL PACKAGE DELIVERY SERVICES FOR INTERNATIONAL PACKAGE AND UNITED STATES DOMESTIC EXPRESS AND GROUND SMALL PACKAGE DELIVERY SERVICES. SERVICE SHALL BE PROVIDED FOR THE UNITED STATES (U.S.) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.$15.3M
    Internal Revenue Service· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Oct 2, 2025 – Jul 7, 2026· 2043FY26F00002
  4. CONSOLIDATED TRANSPORTATION SHIPMENTS MADE BY DECENTRALIZED ORDERING OFFICERS.$12.1M
    USTRANSCOM· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Mar 10, 2026 – Mar 10, 2026· HTC71126F7171
  5. CONSOLIDATED TRANSPORTATION SHIPMENTS MADE BY DECENTRALIZED ORDERING OFFICERS.$9.2M
    USTRANSCOM· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· May 18, 2026 – May 18, 2026· HTC71126F7340
  6. CONSOLIDATED TRANSPORTATION SHIPMENTS MADE BY DECENTRALIZED ORDERING OFFICERS.$7.7M
    USTRANSCOM· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Feb 17, 2026 – Feb 17, 2026· HTC71126F7095
  7. NEXT GENERATION DELIVERY SERVICES (NGDS) - SMALL PARCEL DELIVERY SERVICES FOR IRS NATIONWIDE$6.1M
    Internal Revenue Service· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Mar 9, 2023 – Jul 27, 2026· 205AE923F00012
  8. NGDS SMALL PACKAGE DELIVERY SERVICES FOR VISN 15 FACILITIES$5.4M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Jefferson County, KY· Transportation & logistics· Sep 16, 2018 – Apr 28, 2026· 36C25518F3266

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

7 companies · $75.1M reported

  1. BELL TEXTRON INC$24.1M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 2 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. BELL BOEING JOINT PROJECT OFFICE$20M
    AMARILLO, TX · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. MCKESSON CORPORATION$16.7M
    IRVING, TX · 1 subaward · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 65 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION$3.5B−20% in FY2026
    MEMPHIS, TN · 22 entities · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Couriers and express delivery servicesVeterans Affairs · Couriers and express delivery servicesUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. CROSSTOWN COURIER SERVICE INC$38.4M+12% in FY2026
    LITTLETON, NH · 5.1% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Couriers and express delivery services
  3. ATLAS AIR, INC.$1.4B−29% in FY2026
    WHITE PLAINS, NY · 2 entities · 9.5% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Couriers and express delivery servicesUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of UNITED PARCEL SERVICE CO. (9 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$820K
22 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.7M
PAC giving · 2026
$1.1M
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$940K
    24 reports
  2. 2024$440K
    18 reports
  3. 2025$820K
    22 reports
  4. 2026$460K
    13 reports

Top issues

  1. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code63 reports
  2. Postal30 reports
  3. Trade (domestic and foreign)29 reports
  4. Labor issues, antitrust and workplace15 reports
  5. Transportation15 reports
  6. Trucking and shipping15 reports
  7. Retirement12 reports
  8. Budget and appropriations6 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. SENATE70 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES65 reports
  3. Treasury - Dept of5 reports
  4. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)2 reports
  5. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)1 reports
  6. State - Dept of (DOS)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD$830K
    14 reports
  2. Navigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)$600K
    12 reports
  3. Raffaniello & Associates$540K
    14 reports
  4. JGB & Associates, LLC$290K
    14 reports
  5. Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$250K
    5 reports
  6. Forbes-Tate$150K
    14 reports
  7. Liebman & Associates, Inc.$0
    2 reports
  8. BLACK DIAMOND STRATEGIES LLC$0
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$691.5K61%
  2. Democratic$444K39%
  3. Other or none$6,5000.6%

PACs sponsored

  • UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. PAC (UPSPAC)$3.3M raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.